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well the current landscape for business in Australia is remarkably optimistic we
don't expect to see a great deal of deviation from that which we've seen in
the past so accordingly mining mining infrastructure and mining investment
will continue to be a catalyst for inbound investment but we also think
that in the energy space for renewable energy particularly solar and wind to a
lesser extent certainly hydro and battery storage will continue to be a
driver in that area as well Australia's position as one of the top
10 producers of agricultural products will continue to drive growth protein
both meat and fish as well as grain and other horticultural products will be
very large on the horizon for inbound investment in that respect watch out for
the development of the Northern Territory and the Australian
Government's and the Northern Territory government's pushing to agriculture in
that state and Australia of course continues to be a major tourism
destination but the differential between the number of tourists inbound and hotel
rooms means that there's a significant amount of leisure property investment
which we'll see driving parts of certainly the East Coast and the West
coast of Australia to cater for that inbound leisure and tourism development
Australia's financial institution and its financial system is one of Australia
Pacific's largest you'll see a number of big Australian financial institutions
continue to analyze exactly what its core propositions are and you'll see
some Aussie financial institutions start to divest in some non-core assets
Australia's superannuation and funds under management industry which is
currently standing at about 2.1 trillion dollars is slated over the
next 15 years to grow to around about 7.5 trillion dollars
therefore coming out of that you'll see significant opportunity as Australian
fund managers look for investment opportunities both at home but more
importantly on income producing assets abroad so looking forward we'll continue
to see active balance sheet management by large Australian companies and the
22,000 foreign entities that are operating in Australia will see the
expectation of a 75 to 80% level of the Australian dollar
against the US dollar continue to throw up opportunities both greenfield and
brownfield in sectors that we talked about previously given Australia's
relatively benign foreign investment regime and given the pipeline of
extensive opportunities across the sector's we've talked about Australia
still remains one of the more attractive global destinations for foreign investment